Pharoah Sanders (was: Ishmael Reed)

[Michael Bailey]

Jimi Hendrix ran into the same problems sometimes with The Experience,
the level of devotion he called for was really difficult to sustain
(a-and he split the revenues  generously too so it wasn't that)


On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
> Visited a concert of Pharoah Sanders some years ago. His solos were truly
> mindblowing. With his
> combo, however, he wasn't satisfied. Looked down on them, with rage and
> contempt. And indeed,
> they were just doing a professional jazz concert job without any real
> enthusiasm for the art. Myself
> I loved Mr. Sanders at this moment for his unconditional devotion to art
> with a big a. Here we call
> it Kunstreligion (art-religion). Enlightened by Trane once, the man won't
> stop to seek the absolute.
>
> On 15.12.2010 08:41, Michael Bailey wrote:
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>> Reed's "coolest guy in the room" isn't saying coolest guy in the world
>> - that'd be, like, oh, Desmond Tutu or Pharoah Sanders...somebody like
>> that (Tom Waits?  Thomas Pynchon's in the running too...)
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